Foe straps



(No Model.)

B. K. BURT.

COUPLING FOR STRAPS.

No. 308,875. Patented Dec. 9, 1884.

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NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE' RANSOM K. BURT, OF FRANKFORT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO N. AUGUSTUS PARKER, OF SAME PLACE.

COUPLING FOR Sl'RAPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,875, dated December 9, 1884.

I Application filed November 5, 1883. (No model.)

readily couple the ends of parted reins; and

the novelty consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

The essential object of .the invention is to provide a cheap and efficient device for coupling portions of harness or the like, one which shall be inexpensive of manufacture and simple in operation, and which shall be of ready application when required.

To this end the invention consists of the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a diagram of a single piece of metal out according to my invention from a sheet-metal blank, showing in dotted lines the folding-marks. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same device bent and applied to a leather or other strap. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal, and Fig. 4 a transverse, section.

I Referring to the drawings, A designatesthe sheetanctal blank, cut in any suitable manner in a single piece to form bearing-plates G and C, with extensions 0 and c, with bolt or rivet holes a b, and with side flaps, d and d. When folded as shown in Fig. 2, the part d comprises one embracing side of the coupler, and the flaps d overlap each other to form the other side. The rivetholes a b are located in the extensions 0 c of the bearing-plates, and are equidistant from the center.

The operation is obvious. The ends of a strap are inserted into the coupler until they abut against each other, when rivets f are inserted, as seen in Fig. 3. Being made in a single piece, the coupler is conveniently carried and readily applied.

A complicated device made in several pieces has been before devised for a similar purpose; but such construction is not sought to be covered in this application.

What I claim as new is- The coupler described, consisting of the plates 0 C, with extensions 0 c, the flaps d and d, and rivet-holes a 12, combined and adapted to serve with a strap or straps and rivets f, as and for the purpose set forth.

RANSOM K. BURT.

Witnesses:

ALPHONSO BROWN, GHAs. BURMEISTER. 

